Custom clients with custom assist programs combined with voice programs did not exist when statloss around. You do realise the implications of all this my simple friend?The only real counter arguments to perma-stat so far have been:
A) 'I'll leave the server if you do it!' which is nothing but trying to hold the shard hostige to obey your whims.
B) 'It'll be bad for the server cause PK's will leave' pretty much the same as 'A' but from a 3rd person point of view. These reds knew what UO was back in the day, and have been riding a wave of easy without perma stat-loss
C) 'Well, i'm just gonna loot you!' That's pretty much what has been happening anyways. Lots of reds take gold and leave, but there was plenty of reds that dry-looted regardless. And if you fight on the high-seas (smoke on the water) you were essentially dry-looted automatically on death.
D) 'We're going to run +more deep!' zergs of 5 are already pretty common, and adding more doesn't really change the inevitable death.
"Do it my way or I'll hurt the server!" is the argument of a child.